Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part VIII [LWN.net]

Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part VIII

Posted Apr 24, 2011 9:53 UTC (Sun) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111)
In reply to: Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part VIII by gurulabs
Parent article: Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part VIII

Aim higher! We should be getting rid of the / and /usr split altogether. An initramfs is now perfectly capable of bootstrapping complex root filesystems (encrypted, remote, raid, etc); there is no need to separate "minimal userland necessary for booting" in / and "big userland" in /usr.

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Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part VIII

Posted May 5, 2011 22:33 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

I thought one of the points of /usr (and one of the reasons why a read-only /usr is important) is that they want to be able to share it across systems.

If it *has* to be a network mount, in order to share it, I presume getting rid of it isn't as easy as it looks :-)

Cheers,
Wol